Tag Archives: GM

On the bright side, COVID-19 is helping Donald Trump become a “ratings hit”

By Mark | March 29, 2020

I thought, upon first pass, that this was something posted by a parody account. Sadly, though, it’s apparently real. This is an actual tweet from the President of the United States in the middle of a global pandemic. And, yes, he used the phrase, “the numbers are continuing to rise.” And they are. Only I’m […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Anthony Fauci, coronavirus, egomaniacal, General Motors, Lordstown, narcissism, New York, Ohio, pandemic, public health, quarantine, ratings, reality television, The Bachelor | 61 Comments

A now-profitable General Motors, having been bailed out by the people of Michigan, repays them with massive layoffs and the shuttering of facilities in Hamtramck and Warren

By Mark | November 26, 2018

Back in 2016, while on the campaign trail, Donald Trump made the following promise to Michigan’s automotive workers. “If I’m elected, you won’t lose one plant, you’ll have plants coming into this country, you’re going to have jobs again, you won’t lose one plant, I promise you that,” he said. Well, General Motors announced today […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alternative Energy, automotive bailout, autonomous vehicles, bailout, Baltimore, beyond fossil fuel, cheap labor, Chevy Volt, China, Detroit, Donald Trump, electric vehicles, factories, General Motors, global climate change, greed, Hamtramck, Lordstown, manufacturing, Mary Barra, Mexico, mobility, offshore manufacturing, Ohio, outsourcing, Sherrod Brown, SUVs, tax cuts, Terry Dittes, UAW, Warren | 27 Comments

Throwing compost in the face of the soulless, self-interested and pathologically sociopathic Cadillac demographic… Ford demonstrates why it is that they’ll destroy GM

By Mark | March 27, 2014

As I’ve never had an opportunity to use the YouTube Doubler, I couldn’t let this opportunity pass. On the left is Cadillac’s universally derided “Poolside” ad, which Car and Driver, as you may recall, said was tailor made for “xenophobic nationalists.” And, on the right, is a parody commercial released online today by Ford’s local […]

Posted in Media, Uncategorized | Also tagged automotive bailout, Big 3, C-MAX, Cadillac, Detroit Dirt, Ford, nationalism, Pashon Murray, poolside, self-interest, xenophobia, YouTube Double | 14 Comments

What exactly happened to Detroit?

By Mark | November 23, 2013

Someone from Europe posed the following question on Reddit a few days ago… “Americans: What exactly happened to Detroit? I regularly see photos on Reddit of abandoned areas of the city and read stories of high unemployment and dereliction, but as a European have never heard the full story.” Here, because I think some of […]

Posted in Detroit, Uncategorized | Also tagged Albert Kahn, anti-union, automotive industry, Belle Isle, Brush Park, Chicago, city income tax, Coleman Young, Comerica Park, Corktown, corruption, crack cocaine, Dave Bing, Detroit '67 riots, Detroit City Council, Detroit corruption, Detroit Riot, Detroit River, factories, Ford Field, Ford Motor Company, forestry, General Motors, Henry Ford, housing bubble, housing crisis, industrialization, Joe Louis Arena, Kevyn Orr, Kwame Kilpatrick, logging, lumber, maquiladora, Mexico, NAFTA, North American Free Trade Act, northern migration, outsourcing, People Mover, Poletown Plant, prohibition, public transportation, Pulte, racism, Rail, Renaissance Center, Rick Snyder, rightsizing of Detroit, Ross Perot, the parable of Detroit, union busting, unions, westward expansion, who to blame for the situation in Detroit | 9 Comments

Hummer burial in Detroit

By Mark | June 21, 2010

Today, as progressive groups from around the nation were massing in Detroit in preparation for tomorrow’s much anticipated U.S. Social Forum, the folks from Code Pink, together with Tyree Guyton and volunteers from the Heidelberg Project, came together to bury a burned-out Hummer. Here, from a May post on the Code Pink website, written on […]